Dillinger

In Baltimore City Board approves $100,000 to plan Jones Falls bike trail The Board of Estimates approved yesterday a $100,000 contract to begin planning an urban bicycle trail that would run through the city along the Jones Falls watershed. The RBA Group, a Columbia planning and design firm, was hired to work with the city's greenway coordinator to plan the Jones Falls Trail, which would be accessible only to cyclists and pedestrians. Also yesterday, the board essentially ordered that 34 pay telephones be removed from locations around the city.

1934: FBI kills John Dillinger1934: Dionne quintuplets born1935: Will Rogers' plane lost1935: Social Security approved

WASHINGTON -- They came from as far away as Germany and as nearby as Silver Spring. But at the corner of 9th and E streets, visitors to the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building all found disappointment at their final destination yesterday.The attraction that brought them there -- the popular public tour of the FBI's headquarters -- has been halted indefinitely, after recent unspecified threats against the agency's facilities in Washington.By yesterday, news of the tour cancellations, which began Friday, had clearly not reached everyone in the nation's capital.

William R. Cannon Jr.,81, a United Methodist bishop who served as an adviser to President Jimmy Carter, died Sunday in Atlanta. He was elected a bishop in 1968 after 25 years on the faculty of Emory University's Candler School of Theology, as a professor and later as dean. In 1978, he was President Carter's designee to meet with Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Israel.Marco Ferreri,68, an Italian director whose films examined social morality, died Friday in Paris of a heart attack. His films included "Dillinger Is Dead" (1969)

Thomas J. Connor, 91, the last surviving member of the FBI detail that gunned down John Dillinger in Chicago in 1934, died April 14 in Southbury, Conn.As part of the Dillinger detail, he was stationed in an alley at the side entrance to a theater and didn't witness the fatal confrontation. Dillinger, "Public Enemy No. 1," had robbed more than three dozen Midwestern banks and killed more than a dozen people.Mr. Connor resigned from the FBI in 1935 and later worked with the CIA in New York.

CHICAGO -- Frankie swaggers onto the black bus with bullet holes in the windows and snarls at the passengers. "All right, shut up!" Then he pulls out his gun and starts firing.Everybody ducks, before the momentary shock gives way to guffaws. Frankie, a k a Michael Moylan -- surrogate gangster, tour guide, historian, comedian -- smiles mischievously. "Hmm," he mutters, "you must all be from New York."With that, we're off to Prohibition-era Chicago on a most unconventional tour, led by Moylan and his partner in crime re-creation, "Shoulders," street name for Randy Craig.

Rose Silver, 90, a former Pima County, Ariz., lawyer who once defended gangster John Dillinger, died Monday in Tucson. Dillinger, who was arrested in Tucson in 1934, was sued by a bank he had once robbed. He hired Ms. Silver to represent him and paid her $1,500 and gave her his car. Two years later submachine guns and other firearms were found hidden behind the car's seats and were confiscated by the FBI, said her son-in-law, Gene Karp.Glenn Anderson, 81, who became chairman of the Public Works and Transportation Committee during 12 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, died of Alzheimer's disease Tuesday in Los Angeles.

This might be difficult, but try to imagine someone sincerely making this weird proposal to you."I have an idea for what we can do tonight. Let's go find a stranger and murder him."Huh?"Yeah, then we'll chop up his body and cook some of it. Maybe eat his heart."Whaa?"Sure. And we can put the leftovers away in the freezer. How's about it?"Assuming that you thought this person wasn't being humorous, how would you assess his mental stability?If you didn't spring away screaming, you would probably sputter, "You're crazy," or words to that effect.

I GOT OUT of my cab in front of the Omni Hotel on Fayette Street and, without bothering to check in, headed straight for the bell stand. "Hey, fella," I said to the first bellman I saw, "Where's the best place to go rat fishing around here?"Bill Walters, the bellman, pondered for a moment, consulted a co-worker, and said, "Probably down on Redwood Street, after 10 at night when there aren't too many cars around. Lots of big ones there."His co-worker Ezana ("Call me Easy") Mengistad, disagreed.

It's hard to believe that John Dillinger was once the best-known criminal in America.And that his fame lives on. Movies have been made and books written about his crime career. His biography is in almost any encyclopedia.To this day, crime buffs stand in front of the Biograph Theatre on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago and say: "Wow, that's where the FBI gunned him down."How big a story was it, when he was killed? Under the giant headline of the July 23, 1934, Chicago Tribune -- "KILL DILLINGER HERE" -- were three Page 1 stories.